Heartland Payment Systems has revealed that it lost US$12.6m as a result of its 2008 data breach, in the same week that it finally regained official Payment Card Industry Data Security standard (PCI DSS) compliance.
Information security technology not enough
Information security technology is of little use if employees unwittingly give up log-in details, passwords and other sensitive information to hackers using social engineering.
Fake search engines used to divert users to malware infected websites
Hackers are starting to create fake search engine sites to divert hapless internet users to malware infected websites, says PandaLabs, the research operation of Panda Security.
Global Security Challenge Competition open for entries
The fourth annual Global Security Challenge Competition where security entrepreneurs compete for up to US$500 000 in cash grants, is open for entries until 15 June 2009.
RSA: Splunk’s sales benefit from economic downturn
Splunk, the vendor who calls itself “the google for data centres” are seeing an increase in sales due to the high crime that comes hand in hand with an economic downturn.
Palo Alto networks formally launches in the UK
After several years of offering its products via a few specialist systems integrators in the UK, California’s Palo Alto Networks has established a formal presence in the country.
Infosecurity Europe: firms get access to military grade forensics
It’s not often that firms supplying specialist network forensics technology to US government agencies are allowed to supply their systems software to civilian companies, especially outside of the United States, but Utah-based Solera Networks has achiev…
Infosecurity Europe: Police central e-crime unit can’t afford to tackle e-crime
At the Infosecurity Europe show, London, on 30 April 2009, in a session titled ‘The dynamics of e-crime’, an audience member – an employee of the police central e-crime unit (PCeu) within the Metropolitan police service – interrupted the panel to decla…
German Police arrest Bavarian cracking group
Police in Bavaria have arrested 11 people suspected of being members of the Hacksector cracking group, which maintains a dark hats forum of the same name on the Internet.
Infosecurity Europe: Employee awareness of security is “dangerously immature” says (ISC)2’s Colley
John Colley, managing director of (ISC)2 EMEA lamented the lack of security is company culture in his talk ‘Are we getting the basics right’ at Infosecurity Europe this year.